RIGA -- It's not so much the risk of conflict with Russia that worries the mayor of the Latvian capital Riga; it's the threat to jobs and investment as EU sanctions on Moscow rebound on the economy of the Baltic state.
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Leader of the pro-Russian Harmony Centre party and Mayor of Riga, Nils Usakovs casts his ballot at a polling station during general elections in Riga on Oct. 4, 2014.